Monthly Archives: August 2014

Time flies and waits for no-one, especially if you’re still wasting time by not entering our giveaway for a fab Sony Bravia W65 Smart Television (UK only!). It’s not too late, there’s still 24 hours to go before we find out who the lucky winner is, and if you enter it could be you! Oh yes it could. So stop dawdling and… CLICK HERE TO ENTER! Good luck. [Psst…watch out for our next awesome giveaway coming up very soon now!]

With more than a gazillion smart devices now available for your home, it’s getting quite difficult to manage each gadget individually. One simple hub to manage all of the individual devices could, however, make things much easier to manage and help us sleep better at night probably.

Every day we receive a bunch of solicitations to support crowdfunding projects from various places, and while we absolutely love the whole idea of public/fan sponsored products, there are areas where things need to settle down a little and get real. One such example is 3D printers, a hot new segment where idealistic dreams are often clouding better judgment and financial realities.

Free alarm clocks for smartphones are two a penny on the app store, so one really needs to stand out if it’s to get our attention. Especially since we’re such huge fans of Timely. Well we’ve found one, and it’s not bad at all in a lot of ways, since it offers some very cool features that Timely doesn’t at the moment.

Look portable is all the rage nowadays. Everything’s got to be mobile, from phones to fireplaces, so why not go the whole hog and make your swimming pool portable as well? At least that’s clearly the thinking from this enterprising company. Pickup Pools combines two marvelous inventions in one – the flatbed truck and water borne frolics.

Skulls are very useful things. Not only do they look good with candles and cats, but you can also learn what goes where in an anatomical sense. They also look awesome hodling up a face and do a pretty good job of protecting our brain-meats. Usually their use is limited to a) protection of brain and b) decoration for Halloween. This Skull USB Hub though helps you move data via USB, not neurons.

School is coming back. For some it’s already started. Times have changed however, and now you need more than a pencil and notebook to start the year. You still need a notebook but increasingly you have to add a computer to the mix. Which is strange because most text are still in paper form. The ScanMarker Pen Scanner helps you bridge the gap from the physical world to the digital one.

We’re thinking that this is probably the smallest proper electric car in the world (or the whole universe, what do we know?), and if it isn’t we would definitely like to meet the elves who’ve built one smaller. Petrol heads will, of course, recognize the distinctive Peel micro car shape, but instead of a conventional petrol engine, this puppy comes with a full electric drivetrain. Wow-eee.

All fancy modern cars seem to come with rear parking cameras nowadays, and they’re definitely a boon if, like me, you’re one of those who tends to reverse until they feel something go bump in the night. Of course occasionally the bump turns into something a bit more, well expensive, which is why it would be nice to have a way to retro-fit a device to help.

There are a lot of celebrity products out there. Perfumes, razors, knitting supplies. You name it and you can probably find a famous person with their picture on it. But the Tom Hanks endorsed app takes the cake for strange. Hanx Writer is the app that turns your iOS device into a typewriter.

People who don’t leave their home countries don’t know the struggle of outlets. If you’ve traveled than you understand the issues that surround going from one place to a drastically different place. Go to plug in your curling iron and nope, that’s not the right shape. I’m buying everyone I know the 4-in-1 Adapter. Not just because it’s a cool travel adapter, but because it also makes it very easy to know which plug works where.

Traveling is great fun, but sometimes it can be hard to really experience a new place without ending up doing all the conventional ‘touristy’ stuff. And even if you try and go off the beaten track, it’s hard to find out what’s worth doing and what’s not. Now there’s a new service which aims to connect locals with visitors to help you discover great places and things which tourists won’t know about.

Need someone to gauge the power in your back-hand shot, or check the effectiveness of your slice shot? Unless you hire a professional tennis coach, you’re on your own and no one will be shouting at you from the sidelines to correct your form or posture. Hiring a professional trainer can be a big blow to your budget but buying a digital coach on the other hand is definitely more affordable.

The Raspberry Pi just got some serious competition. Brit developers Imagination has just released a new development system, called the MIPS Creator C120, which offers some serious functionality on a board. And what’s more they’re putting their money where their mouth is by offering the systems free of charge to all suitable projects. Just visit the site and enter in your details. [Update: the site is apparently down right now. Who would have thought it?]